Dylan Evans
| Dylan Evans | |
|---|---|
| Born |
18 August 1966 Bristol, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Cork, Ireland |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics PhD, 2000 |
| Known for |
Emotion placebo |
| Awards | British Medical Association Medical Book Competition (2003) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Behavioural science |
| Institutions |
Universidad Francisco Marroquin 2012 |
| Doctoral advisor |
John Worrall Nicholas Humphrey |
Universidad Francisco Marroquin 2012
American University of Beirut 2012
University College Cork 2008–2011
University of the West of England 2003–2006
University of Bath 2001–2003
Dylan Evans (born August 18th, 1966) is a British academic and author who has written books on emotion and the placebo effect as well as the theories of Jacques Lacan.
Evans was born in Bristol on 29 September 1966 and went to school at Sevenoaks School and West Kent College of Further Education. His father is an aircraft engineer, his mother is a teacher.
At Southampton University he studied Spanish and Linguistics and later he received his doctorate in philosophy from the London School of Economics.
Evans is an atheist and also writes and gives lectures on atheism and related topics. He contributed an article to The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity arguing that psychology has shown atheism to be a better explanation of the human mind than theism.
Evans worked at the University of Bath and the University of the West of England. Evans was a psychoanalyst in the style of Jacques Lacan, and wrote a standard reference work in the field. After several years, however, Evans eventually came to doubt the logical and scientific validity of Lacanianism, and ultimately abandoned the field because he was worried Lacanianism harmed rather than helped patients. Evans resigned from the position of senior lecturer at the University of the West of England to start a project in sustainable living called the Utopia Experiment.
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